Alchemy single work   poetry   "Who drains a draught of dragon's blood"
Issue Details: First known date: 1940... 1940 Alchemy
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Notes

  • Author's note: 5 April, 1939.
  • Epigraph: In the cup, nectar of an unknown but most delicious flavour was presented, and when it was drunk, all heat and weariness fled from the glowing body, so that one would be thought ready to undertake toil instead of having toiled. - Gervaise of Tilbury
  • Epigraph: 'Drink this,' said the stranger ... 'How do you feel now?' 'I feel strong,' said the Daen (blackfellow), 'as if I could hunt always and never grow weary.' - Australian Fairy Tales, collected by Catherine Stow, 1930.

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